Stock-car



2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

Patented Mar. 30, 1886.

B. C. HICKS. sToGK GAR.

(No Model.)

No. 338,743.v

' 2 Sheets-Sheet 2. B. G. HICKS.

STOCK GAR (No Model.)

Patented Mar. 30, 1886.

@MW M. wiwmx NITED STATES BOHN OHAPIN HICKS, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

STOCK-CAR.

PECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 338,743, dated lV'arCh 30, 1886.

Application tiled December "El, 18.45.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, BoHN CHAPIN Hicks, a citizen of the United States, a residentof )'Iinneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stock Oars, of which the following is a specification.

Figure lis acrossAsect-ioual view. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of a portion of one end of a car, and Fig. 8 is a plan View in section of a portion of the parts shown in Fig. 2. Figs. 4 and 5 are enlarged perspective views of two modifications of the systems of cables used for operating the stall-bars. Fig. (i represents the drums and sheaves as used in connection with the system shown in Fig. 4, and Fig. 7 represents the drums and sheaves as used in connection with the system shown in Fig. 5. Fig. 8 represents an enlarged de tail illustrating one method of attaching the stall-bars to the cable.

A represents the Hoor; A2, the roof, and A3 the stanchions or side frame-work connecting t-he roof and door. The stanchions are shown arranged in pairs at equal distances apart along the sides of the car opposite each other. In a full-sized car the s tanchions of each pair will be set about six inches apart, and with a space of about three feet from center to center of each pair of stanchions, the six-inch spaces adapted to support guides a for the ends of the stall-bars B, and the three-foot spaces representing the stalls for the animals. Jour naled across the car, above each pair of the stanchions A3,'is a shalt. b, carrying on each end above the spaces between the stanehions two drums, d al, fast to the shaft, and with a grooved sheave or pulley, d, loose upon the shaft between each pair of drums. Attached to the door A, in the bottom of the space between each pair of the stanchions Ai,is a small pulley or sheave, di, and pivoted in any suita ble manner to the main roof plate Al, near the upper ends of each pair of stanchions A, is another small sheave or pulley,cl5. Each of the stanchion's and stalls for the animals will thus be supplied with its o'wn shaft b, set of drums d dtand sheaves di, d,and (l5, as shown. An ordinary stock-car will be long enough to hold about ten of these sets of the stalls, tive on each side of the doorway; butin the drawings I have shown only three complete stalls,

Serial No. 186,101. (No model.)

as being sufficient to illustrate the invention. On one end of each ot' the shafts b, outside the car. is attached a hand-wh eel, e,and ratchet e2, by which the shalt may be revolved, and held at any point desired. A small wire cable will be attached at g to each of the drums d, and carried thence down around the sheave d", and thence upward over the sheave d3, and thence horizontally and around the sheave d5. and thence back horizontally to the drum rl', around which it is wound a certain number of times, and connected hy its end to the drum d. The diameters and lengths of the drums d d,2 must so correspond to the height of the car or the distance which it is necessary to elevate the stall-bars B that they will each hold a sufficient quantity of the wire cable to reach from the drums to the door A', as hereinafter explained.

Il' the distance from the oor A to the roofplate A* be six feet, then each drum must be large enough to hold six feet of cable. A drum four inches in diameter will require to be long enough to hold six coils of the cable, and when a cable one-fourth of an inch in diameter is used, the drums would require to be one and one half inch long. For convenience or" future rel'erence, I have designated the diii'erent parts of the cable by letters of reference, as follows: The part running from the drum d to the sheave d* is marked g2, the part from the sheave d to the sheave d3 is marked g3, the part from the sheave d to the sheave d5 is marked g4, and the part from the sheave d5 to the drum d' ismarked g5.

The ends of the stall bars B are shown connected to the part g3 ofthe cable in Fig. l, and on the right and left hand stall in Fig. 2, while 011 the central stall in Figs. 2 and 3 the stall-bars are 'shown attached to an auxiliary section of cable, g, the latter attached by its ends at g7 and g5 to the parts g2 and g5 of the main cable. The operation and results produced are the same, however, in both arrangements, as I shall show hereinafter.

As before stated, the stanohions Ai are provided with guide-plates a, between which the ends of the stall-bars B run. By this means the parts gl g g and the sheaves d are protected, and are not liable to be injured or displaced by the animals.

The stall-bars B being in their downward IOO position, as in Fig. 1, and at the left of Fig. 2, by turning the shaft b to the left the cable will be wound upon the drum d and unwound from the drum d2, and thus cause the partsg3 (to which the bars B are attached) to move lupward over the sheaves d3, and thence horizontally along toward the sheaves d5, and thence around the sheaves 15in ahorizontal line back toward the drums again, and carrying the stallbars with them and folding them out of the way. Then, when itis required to run the stall-bars down again, the shaft b will be revolved in the opposite direction.

In the modification shown in Fig. 5, and at the center of Fig. 2, the action is the same, except that the bars B are attached to an au xiliary section of cable, g, instead of the part gi of the main cable. By this arrangementthe draft of the cable is positive, as both ends are fast to the drums ddz, and no slipping of the cable is possible under any circumstances.

Comparatively small cables can be used, as the strains upon them are not severe.

The stall-bars B may be connected to the cables in any desired manner; but for the purpose of illustration I have shown in Fig. 8 one method of attachment which will answer the purpose, consisting in simple clamps m,

which connect the cables tothe centers only of the stall-bars, and thus do not interfere with their running around the sheaves or drums.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is- In a stock-car, a series of shafts, b, journaled across the upper part of the interior of said car at suitable intervals, and each of said shafts provided with two drums, d dattachedthereto, and one sheave, dfgloose thereon, sheave d, attached to the fioor of said car beneath each pair of said drums, a sheave, d5, journaled to the upper part of the interior of said car, a cable attached by its ends to said drums d d and running around said sheaves, and a. series of stalll bars, B, attached by their ends to each opposite pair of said cables, and means for revolving said shafts b, whereby said stall-bars will be elevated and depressed to form stalls j for the animals in said car.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing vwitncsses.

YV. J. HOLEMAN, C. N. WooDWARD. 

